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Matt McDonald, a Boston-area native, has decades of experience as a reporter, editor, and copy editor. His work has appeared in The Mashpee Messenger, Cape Cod News, and The Norfolk Boomerang.
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A member of a Connecticut School Board arrested during a raucous apartment complex board of directors meeting once blasted "Fight the Power" on her cell phone while protesting the agenda of a school board finance committee, according to the Connecticut Post. Maria Pereira was arrested on charges of
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A candidate running for president of the Republic of Ireland has apologized for using a helicopter to campaign. Peter Casey, a businessman, "conceded" using the helicopter "was wrong on environmental grounds," according to a story in the Irish Independent, a Dublin newspaper. The story does not
Around New England
More incoming Yale freshmen surveyed identify as homosexual, bisexual, or transsexual than conservative – and almost as many as those who identify as Protestant or Catholic. The results are based on a survey by Yale Daily News of incoming freshmen. About 55 percent responded.
Around New England
Steve Negron, a retired U.S. Air Force veteran, won a close race over two competitors to take the GOP nomination for Congress in New Hampshire's Second Congressional District on Tuesday. Negron, a pro-life conservative who is in his first term as a state representative from Nashua, has
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He doesn't officially have an opponent yet, but congressional candidate Rick Green has released a new ad showing him swimming across the Merrimack River – fully clothed — to demonstrate how bad traffic is in Lowell. Green, a Republican from Pepperell, appears in the ad with his brother, Mike Green,
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Former police chief Eddie Edwards edged out state Senator Andy Sanborn (R-Bedford) in the Republican primary for New Hampshire's First Congressional District on Tuesday. Edwards has also served as head of law enforcement for the New Hampshire Liquor Commission and as a congressional staffer.
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Maura Sullivan, a former U.S. Marine who had lived in New Hampshire less than a year when she announced a campaign for Congress, lost handily to Executive Councilor Chris Pappas in the Democratic primary Tuesday despite seriously outspending him. Sullivan got financial backing from several Washington advocacy organizations, including
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Investments in fossil fuels and private prisons by Harvard University have irked left-wingers in past years, and now some critics are latching onto the school's farmland holdings. Harvard started quietly buying farmland in places like Brazil, South Africa, Russia, Ukraine, Australia, New Zealand, and California after the 2008